Lateral

Lateral helped researchers search, organize, and compare documents with AI; sunset June 26, 2025.

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Lateral's Top Features

AI-assisted document navigation and search

Project and document management for centralized review

SuperSearch across all uploaded documents

Table View for organizing and comparing snippets by concept

Custom, concept-based organization and filtering

DocumentViewer with highlighting, extraction, and snippet saving

AI-powered suggestions for contextually related text

Export of organized findings to Word and Excel

Simple, user-focused interface to reduce manual work

Open science alignment and transition to coordination.network (sunset June 26, 2025)

Frequently asked questions about Lateral

Lateral was an AI software designed to help users rapidly find and navigate information across documents, enabling faster research and easier organization of content, particularly for academics and researchers.

Lateral was aimed at anyone needing to navigate large volumes of documents, especially academics, researchers, and professionals involved in literature review, research workflows, and knowledge management.

Lateral let users create projects, upload documents, structure key concepts as columns, search across all documents at once, highlight and save important text snippets, and export consolidated findings to Word or Excel.

Key features included Table View for organizing and comparing snippets by concept, SuperSearch across all documents, AI-powered suggestions for related text, a DocumentViewer for in-depth reading and highlighting, and export functions.

No, Lateral was sunset on June 26, 2025. The company has shifted its focus to building fully open-source science tools, with a new platform available at coordination.network.

Lateral is succeeded by an open-source platform at coordination.network, designed to foster decentralized, open, and incentivized science, offering new ways for researchers to support, fund, and connect across disciplines.

Lateral protected user data by not selling it, only using data (with permission) for AI training, requiring explicit consent to access user information, and encrypting communications.

If you previously signed up to Lateral and have questions about your data or access, please get in touch with the team via their contact options.

Lateral’s team operated internationally, with locations in Berlin and Hobart.

Lateral’s mission was to empower people to quickly access and utilize information, particularly to support those solving complex problems, by building intuitive, AI-powered research and organizational tools.